I've found the same with Mastadon. It has a pre-eternal-September feel to it.
replyHas it normalized? When I first tried Lemmy it was mostly communists talking about communism. Then after some Reddit drama it seemed to be a bunch of people complaining about Reddit.
replyI generally like smaller sites, but those topics weren’t exactly engaging for me.
I got banned from some community for pointing out how shitty Soviet Union was in WW2, but learned to avoid that instance from that. It's a "federation", so you get all kinds.
replyThere's discussion on all topics these days.
That was one of the first instances lemmy.world. You can ignore that one because it's very drama-filled. Other Lemmy servers are more chill.
replyI’ve been a regular lemmy user for a few years now and it’s gotten better. The communists (and fascist) platforms have been de-federated from the major platforms. It’s still full of Reddit complaining from ex redditors. I don’t think that will change.
replyMy login server is lemmy.world, so if you sign up with something else ymmv.
Every instance is its own thing. You probably need to filter out hexbear/lemmygrad
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